Hey guys! To start off, thank you to all of you who reviewed last chapter. You're amazing! So, I've been experiencing a bit of a writer's block lately. I actually ended up writing a Brian/Mia post first movie inspired on Nirvana's song You Know You're Right to get myself out of that. I really don't know how I connected You Know You're Right to Fast and Furious, even worse, Brian and Mia post F&F one, but I did somehow. XD
You could check it out, maybe? :3
Okay, anyway, I was finally able to get my inspiration back and write this chapter. I hope you enjoy it! :)
Everyone noticed the difference in the relationship of Dom and Brian in the days that followed their conversation. They had asked what had happened, but the two just explained they talked things out and left it at that. The only two who got the full story were Letty and Mia. The others kept insisting until they eventually just gave up.
Even though that conversation was only supposed to fix the relationship between Dom and Brian, it ended up improving the relationship of Dom's team with the Miami crew. Roman, Tej, Suki, and Jimmy were always keeping an eye on Dom after the man tried to kill their friend, but they stopped worrying after it was obvious the two were back to being friends. It didn't take that long for them to open up as well, and so far, everyone was getting along great. The only one that wasn't completely happy was Vince, but he made an effort to get along with everyone and not provoke any more fights. There was still tension, especially with Vince and Roman, but so far there were no more fights.
The DT team had stayed in Miami for some few months now, and now they were to a point that Dom would consider Roman, Tej, Suki, and Jimmy a part of their family in a way. He knew they had been there for Brian, Jesse, and Mia while he and the team were running around in Latin America. He was pretty sure Mia, Jesse, and Brian already thought of their friends as family, which would mean they were Dom's family as well.
So he decided to do something he would always do with his family on Sundays.
"We should have a barbecue someday," he suggested to his team as they ate dinner.
"A barbecue?" Mia prompted as she fed Jack.
"Well, yeah," Dom nodded. "It's been over three years since we last had a barbecue—you know; the whole family. You could invite the others and we could all have a barbecue on the beach or something."
"That sounds awesome!" Jesse exclaimed. "I miss the Sunday barbecues!"
"I'm down for the idea," Leon said.
"Me too!" Letty grinned.
"Yeah, sounds good," Vince agreed.
"I'm in," Brian smiled.
"Let's tell everyone—we could do it next Sunday," Mia said. "And it's going to be amazing!"
"Holy shit," Jimmy whistled as he watched Dom fire up the barbecue. Tej had managed to get a very good place for a barbecue in the beach, with a huge table for them all to eat. There was what Jimmy would call a mountain of meat on the table beside Dom. The DT team was who bought everything since they were the ones who used to have barbecues, so Jimmy hadn't seen the amount of food until now. "You gonna cook all that meat, man?"
"Of course I will," Dom replied and Jimmy gave him a look. "Trust me. We're lucky if something even lasts."
"Whatever you say, man," Jimmy shrugged. "You're the expert here."
"Hey, ¿en como cuánto va a estar listo? ¡Tenemos hambre!" Tego complained as he rubbed his stomach. (Hey, in about how long will it be ready? We're hungry!)
"How can you already be hungry?" Jesse wondered.
"Dawg, Dom just now fired up the barbecue," Leon informed.
"Shit, just now?!" Roman whined. "Oh, come on, man."
"'Course you gonna be damn hungry already, man!" Tej rolled his eyes. "You got a black hole of a stomach, I'm tellin' you."
"No shit," Vince muttered sarcastically.
"Tego, creo que ya encontramos a tu nuevo major amigo," Rico grinned over at Roman's direction. (Tego, I think we already found your new best friend.) "Los dos siempre tienen hambre." (You two are always hungry.) He raised his voice so that all the team could hear him. "Creo que ya sé por qué Tego siempre quema la comida. ¡Está tan desesperado por comer que lo cocina demasiado!" (I think I know why Tego always burn food. He's so desperate to eat that he overcooks it!) The team laughed at his comment.
"Qué chistoso," Tego sneered. (How funny.)
"Guys—don't fight," Mia said as she came over with the salad.
"This is normal for them, trust me," Gisele told her as she followed the young mother with the potatoes.
"I can imagine," Suki chuckled. She turned her gaze and smiled. "Aw, look at that, Gisele! Look at your man."
Gisele turned around and smiled when seeing Han building a sand castle with Brian and Jack. Her boyfriend playing with a baby had to be one of the cutest things she had ever seen. "Well, that's my Han," she grinned.
"I don't know why, but Jack manages to make everyone be a softy," Letty chuckled. "Why, Mia?"
"Don't ask me!" the youngest Toretto exclaimed.
"Why not? You created him!" Letty laughed.
"I didn't do it alone," Mia laughed as well and then pointed at Brian. "He was there—it's his fault, too!"
"What's my fault?" Brian asked from where he sat with Jack and Han. He saw Mia pointing at him and overheard her saying something was his fault.
"This little one's creation," she grinned, walking to them and kissing Jack's forehead. "Letty wants to know why he makes everyone be a softy."
"That's a good question!" Han agreed. "I don't even know why I'm building sand castles right now."
"It must be 'cause he's a Toretto," Dom called from the barbecue.
Brian rolled his eyes, but a chuckle escaped him, showing his amusement. "Based on what criteria?" he called to Dom.
"Other that it definitely isn't the O'Conner genes?" Dom called back. "Well, I'll have to know that when Mia was a baby, everyone would stop to play with her. So, yeah—Toretto genes!"
"And here we've got proud Uncle Dom!" Roman announced with a grin.
"Proud, definitely," Letty shook her head.
"Yeah, don't be so obvious, brother—you're gonna end up embarrassing the kid," Vince joked. After several weeks, he was finally stopping to resent Jack. He figured the kid was innocent, so he did his best not to focus his anger on Jack. He wouldn't admit it out loud, but he ended up caring for the kid.
Dom snorted. "Nah, he won't be embarrassed by his cool uncle. I don't know about his father though!" he exclaimed loudly.
"You wish, Toretto!" Brian yelled back, still building the sand castle with his son, and everyone chuckled at the exchange.
"Finally! Time to eat!" Roman grinned as he reached over to get a piece of chicken. The food was finally cooked and the whole group sat in the table to enjoy their lunch. Roman and Tego had been particularly impatient, since they had been hungry from the start. However, Tego knew a rule Roman didn't, which is why he didn't go and reach for the food first.
"Wait!" Dom stopped him, and Roman glanced at him in slight annoyance, not happy that he was stopped from getting his chicken. "We have to say grace first."
Roman's eyebrows raised as Suki blinked and Tej and Jimmy exchanged confused looks. They were the only ones not aware of the Toretto tradition of saying grace before eating, and honestly, they didn't expect it. The expressions in their faces gave them away and the others laughed at them. Brian couldn't really blame them—he remembered when he was undercover and Dom declared that Jesse had to say grace. He had been surprised that Dom would do something like that, but there were a lot of things he hadn't really known about Dom until he got to really know him.
"Uh… grace?" Roman repeated stupidly, his hand still almost touching the chicken.
"Yeah, and you might wanna reconsider touchin' that, dawg," Leon said. "Whoever touches food first says grace."
"Oh, come on," Roman groaned. "You kidding me."
"¿Por qué crees que no toqué la comida?" Tego asked, shaking his head. (Why do you think I didn't touch the food?)
"House rules, man. House rules," Brian smirked at Roman.
"You knew about this rule and didn't tell me?!" Roman questioned. "C'mon, Bri—ain't I s'pposed to be your best friend?"
"Yeah, but I figured it'd be cooler if you found out of this tradition just like I did," Brian replied, his smirk still on his face.
"Haha, very funny," Roman glared at him. "But, hey—I ain't touchin' the chicken, see?!" He nodded to his hand. "Close but not touch! I was stopped just in time."
"That's probably because you blessing the table would give us all bad luck," Han commented.
"Well said!" Tej grinned and high-fived Han.
Roman glared at his chuckling friends and shook his head. "That's cold, man."
"Yeah, whatever," Letty rolled her eyes. "So, who says grace?"
"I will!" Mia grinned. She put her hands together in prayer, and everyone followed her actions. "Father, we want to thank you for the food that you've given us. For that we're all finally together and for us getting over old fights and grudges to be here today. For our family that has definitely grown in these last three years."
"And we want to thank you for this little angel here," Dom said, taking over the prayer and smiling at Jack who was sitting on his baby chair beside his parents. "Bless him and all of our family. And of course, we want to thank you for fast cars. Amen."
"Amen," the occupants of the table chorused.
"So, now we can eat?" Roman asked, and when he received nods, he grinned and went to grab the chicken he'd intended to take. Soon, everyone was following his example and began getting food for them to eat, all while chatting with each other like one big family.
"Brian is Brian, huh?" Dom asked Mia as he watched her boyfriend playing with her son on the beach. The food was eaten already and they whole group dispersed to enjoy a day on the beach.
The question might've sounded confusing, maybe even stupid, but Mia immediately understood what her brother meant by that; no matter what name, what identity, Brian was still himself.
"Yeah," Mia nodded with a smile. "Brian is Brian."
"Is that why you chose to stay with him, Mia?" Dom asked quietly after a moment of hesitation.
Mia paused, and in that moment, the two siblings realized that while they had gotten along well during these last few months, there were still a conversation pending between them. Because even if they were siblings, even if they could forgive each other, they still wanted—needed—answers. They couldn't just keep on acting as if they didn't have questions, as if they could actually understand each other. They hadn't even realized they were acting, so it hit them like a ton of bricks the moment Dom asked that question.
They needed to talk as well.
"Let's take a walk," Mia suggested, standing up from where she was sitting. Dom looked at her frowning, believing her to be avoiding the conversation. Mia usually avoided conversations she didn't want to have; changing topics, answering a question with another question. Still, he stood up as well, and he followed her as she told Brian that they were taking a walk and then led him away from the group.
"You didn't answer my question," Dom reminded her as they walked.
"I know," Mia sighed. "That's why I told you to take a walk. Let's be honest, this will probably take a while and it'd be better if we're alone."
"Yeah," Dom let out a chuckle, knowing it was true. "That always happens."
"We're Torettos," she smiled.
"Yeah, we are," Dom grinned, but the grin quickly dropped from his face. "Now, stop stalling, Mia."
"I'm not stalling," Mia replied. "I'm just continuing the flow of the conversation."
"Mia—"
"I will answer, Dom! Jesus," she shook her head.
"Answer me then," he prompted. "Why did you chose to stay with him, Mia? Why did you chose him over us that day? Was it because Brian is Brian and you understood that or was it because of something else?"
"It wasn't because Brian is Brian," Mia replied. "I didn't even know Brian was Brian; I mean, since he lied," she shrugged. "I couldn't possibly know that he was being himself all along, but, uh, I still decided to trust him. Because, you know..."
"You love him?" he guessed.
Mia nodded. "I fell in love with Brian back when he was pretending to be Spilner. I, uh, didn't take to kindly that he... lied to me, naturally," she chuckled a little. "And I was sure that we were over after he came clean. I thought whatever illusion I had with him would go to hell, but... but, when I had to chose whether to go with you or stay with him, I realized that I couldn't hate him. I wanted to hate him, Dom. I really did, but how can I hate someone I love? It would've been lying to myself."
"So you stayed because you loved him?"
"That's got a lot to do with it, but not quite. Even if I loved him, I wouldn't have stayed if I didn't have some reassurance that I could trust him."
"And what reassured you to do so?"
"He saved Vince," Mia shrugged. "He blew his cover to help us. He risked his life to do so. It made me think that he actually cared for us—cared for me. And even though I knew the most logical thing was to leave with you, there was a part of me that nagged me to stay. I couldn't picture my life without him, Dom. I wanted to believe him, and then when I saw him..." She smiled. "I wanted to believe that he cared for us, and I loved him enough to do so. I wanted to make a choice by myself. I didn't want you to keep making the choices for me. I was tired of you taking control of my life. Not to mention I kinda blamed you for what happened..."
"You blamed me?" Dom asked in surprise.
"If you hadn't started the truck hijackings, the Feds wouldn't have sent Brian in and our family wouldn't have broken up," Mia deadpanned.
Dom couldn't argue. He knew it was true—he'd known it all along, even though he always tried to find someone else to blame so he could handle the guilt. That someone had been Brian, and it had worked pretty well until the blond shoved the truth he refused to see in his face. "But, if I hadn't started the heists, you wouldn't have met Brian."
"I know," she replied, and then she smiled. "And I want to thank you. I know this sounds terrible, but even though all that shit went down and we had to split up and not see each other in years, I'm the happiest that I've ever been in my life right now. "
"It's nice to know there was a good thing among the many consequences of my fuck up," he said. "I didn't want to see the truth some months ago, but I can do it now—Brian makes you happy."
"He really does," Mia smiled. "After I chose him, I still wasn't so sure if I made the right choice. But, then he saved Jesse, got rid of Tran, and let you walk away free. That's when I was assured that he was on our side. And even though I still resented his lying ways a little, I still decided to go with him along with Jesse and I gave him the chance to be with me again, as long as I got to know the real him. And during those months we were running, I began to realize that, well..." she giggled. "Brian is still Brian."
"He is," Dom agreed. "After you chose Brian over me, I was... well, I was hurt," he admitted, and Mia looked up at him with a shocked yet guilty look. "I couldn't believe that my own sister chose him over me. And it hurt me. It really did. But, I figured he made you happy, hence why you chose to stay with him, and I forced myself to get over it. When I came here and met Jack, I was so pissed. I've heard so many stories about asshole knockin' their girls up and ruinin' their lives, and considering our history with Brian..."
"He was still with me even though we had Jack now," Mia said pointedly.
"I know, but I was still pissed. He knocked up my sister, damn it."
"Over protective older brother," Mia rolled her eyes.
"Just doin' my job," he grinned. "Anyway, after a while I got over myself and saw the big picture and realized that you were happy with your family." He paused, looked at his little sister and smiled. "And that's all a big brother can ask for. I'm glad you're happy, Mia."
Mia smiled brightly. "And I'm glad you're here." She hugged her brother. She had missed him so much, it was almost surreal to see him every day now. Dom smiled as he hugged Mia back. She had no idea how much he had missed her. And they were both so glad they had that conversation. They needed it.
"Let's go back, now," Dom suggested. "The others might be worried about us." Mia nodded, and the two of them walked back to their friends; Dom's arm around her shoulders and Mia's arm around his waist.
"Ooh, I see pregnant Mia!" Leon announced loudly as he pointed to a picture of Mia when she was heavily pregnant with Jack. Jesse had been showing Leon an album of pictures of the Miami crew and somehow Vince, Letty, Dom, Brian and Mia joined them.
Dom stared at the picture of his sister when pregnant in wonder. It was so strange to see her with a pregnant belly. Some few months ago, he would've been furious. Now, though, he found himself looking at the picture with a small smile. Mia's huge smile in the picture showed her happiness, and that made Dom happy. "How far along where you?"
"About seven months, I think," Mia replied with a smile.
"I remember that day!" Jesse grinned. "Tej had closed the garage so we could all go to the beach for the entire day."
"Yeah, and Rome kept trying to surf and failed miserably at it, didn't he?" Mia asked Brian with a laugh.
"Yeah. Yeah, Rome sucks at surfing," Brian chuckled and shook his head. "He's getting better though."
"You're like the surf teacher, aren't ya?" Letty asked amused.
"Yeah, I guess that's about right. Speakin' of teaching, remember when I tried to teach you how to surf?" Brian grinned at his girlfriend, remembering the day of their date at the beach, before the Verone case.
"I remember that I kept falling off the board," she replied with a grin as she shook her head. "I was terrible at it."
"It was the first time you ever got on one! Of course you were gonna fall."
"I can't believe we're still talking about this about two years after this date happened," Mia laughed.
"Wait, you tried to teach my sister how to surf, O'Conner?" Dom asked in amusement.
"She'd said surfing looked fun, so I told her to try it out," he explained. "I've been tryin' to get her to continue practicing, but she refuses."
"I'm not gonna get on a board I'm gonna fall off," she chuckled.
"Well, it looks like you lost a student, Bri, but you got another one," Leon commented. "I mean, you said you were teaching Rome."
"Yeah, I guess," the blond replied. "I love to surf, so I don't mind helpin' people out when it comes to it."
"So were you surfing when Mia took this picture?" Vince questioned.
He gave a one-shouldered shrug. "Probably, yeah."
"Looks like you didn't do much whilst Mia was pregnant with your kid, huh?" Vince asked with a smirk. "I mean, surfing while Mia was carrying your kid."
Letty punched Vince. "Don't fuckin' be like that." She glared at him to get him to stop. Then her gaze turned to Brian. "Really, though—what could you do while Mia was pregnant? I mean, she was the one pregnant, not you, and your kid hadn't been born yet…"
Brian snorted. "If you think I didn't have to do anything while Mia was pregnant then you have no fuckin' idea."
Vince raised an eyebrow. "And what exactly did ya have to do?"
"Uh… beside dealin' with the pregnant woman herself?" Brian asked and Jesse burst into laughter.
"That doesn't sound so bad," Dom commented.
"Yeah, I wish it was as easy as it sounds."
"It wasn't so bad," Mia rolled her eyes.
"You kept me awake when you couldn't sleep!"
"I didn't let you sleep because you knocked me up. Your son in my womb was the reason I wasn't able to sleep!"
"Last time I checked, you need two people to create a kid and I definitely didn't hear you complainin'," he shot back and Mia's cheeks flushed red.
"I did not need to hear that," Dom muttered, not wanting nor liking to know anything about his sister's sex life.
"Yeah, sorry, Dom," Brian apologized. "Anyway, the thing is, if I wanted to get any sleep again, I had to make sure Mia was as comfortable as possible so she could sleep herself."
"So, besides not sleeping, is there anything else?" Leon asked.
"Cravings," Brian said. "She would want random things at random hours, and guess who had to get her what she wanted?" He pointed to himself. "There was this time it was three a.m. and Mia wanted a pizza, so she woke me up and there I was drivin' around the city at three a.m. looking for any open pizzeria around. When I finally found one, I got in the shop and this guy in the counter looked at me and asked, 'Your woman's pregnant, isn't she?'"
Mia shrugged. "I just wanted a pizza."
"At three a.m.," Brian added.
"I just love how the pizza guy guessed Mia was pregnant," Letty chuckled.
Dom shrugged. "Well, why else would anyone get a pizza at three a.m?"
"Anyway, is that all?" Vince asked Brian.
"No, it's not. Don't forget the mood swings!" Jesse exclaimed.
Brian groaned. "Those were the worst."
"I wasn't so crazy," Mia defended herself, but when both Brian and Jesse sent her some looks of disbelief, she sighed. "Well, not that much crazy."
"I've made my decision," Leon announced and everyone looked at him confused. "I'm never knocking up a girl in my life! Condoms are gonna be my new best friends!" Everyone laughed at the comment that earned Leon a punch on the arm, courtesy of Mia—which, of course, just made everyone laugh harder.
"You know what I've been thinkin' about lately?" Dom asked aloud.
"No?" Roman raised his eyebrows.
"About what?" Han questioned.
"1327."
That number didn't mean anything to Roman, Tej, Suki, Jimmy, Gisele, Han, Tego, and Rico. They didn't even know what it was. They just glanced at each other and then stared at Dom in confusion. They didn't understand. However, Letty, Vince, Leon, Jesse, Mia, and Brian understood immediately. It wasn't just some number. Because they knew that number, it meant something to them. Something dear.
"What about it, brother?" Vince asked, but there was a grin forming on his face as he deduced where his friend was going with his thoughts.
"We have clean records," Dom said, hinting the idea he had long thought about. "We don't have to run anymore."
Letty immediately caught her boyfriend's drift and she grinned. "So what you're saying is…?"
"We're going back?" Leon's excitement was obvious to the world.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait. Gimme a second, will ya?" Roman glanced at the Toretto crew in confusion. "Whaddya talkin' 'bout here? Goin' back, numbers… Might give some context, y'know, 'cause we're kinda lost here." He glanced to his best friend, who had mixed emotions in his face, and Roman didn't know why. "Whaddya talkin' 'bout?"
"The house back at LA…" Brian trailed off.
"Home," Dom replied.
"Wait, so you're saying…" Suki looked at Brian, Mia, and Jesse particularly, and even though she tried to hide it, sadness made its way into her voice. "You're going back?"
"You guys returnin' to Los Angeles?" Tej asked hesitantly.
"We haven't talked about it," Mia said honestly, Jack at her hip.
"Do we even have to talk about it? It's home!" Leon grinned. "Doesn't it sound great?"
"But…" Jesse glanced at Tej, Suki, and Jimmy. "…What about—"
"What's the problem?" Vince asked. "Don't you want to go back home?"
"Yeah! Yeah, but… home…"
"Our home… our home is…" Mia looked at around the garage, and she knew she couldn't just leave like that.
"Our home's here now," Brian finished for her, knowing how hard it was for Mia and Jesse to say it out loud.
They had been in Miami for three years now. And when they had first arrived, they wouldn't have hesitated to leave for LA if they had the chance. Now, however, they weren't so sure. They had so many memories, so many things that had happened in that place—in Tej's Garage, in the beach, in their house, in the street races, in the city. They couldn't just forget all that. They would always think of Los Angeles as home, but Miami was home, too. Because the people they loved were there.
Tej, Suki, and Jimmy were there with them from day one. They were the ones who let them participate in the street races, gave them somewhere to stay, let them hang out with them, showed them the city, gave them help when they needed it and didn't judge them. Then Roman joined during the Verone case, and they all worked together. Eventually, they became more than friends to them—they were family. They were there during Mia's pregnancy, and they always were there for Jack if they were needed.
How could they just leave them behind?
"What are you talkin' about?" Dom frowned. He accepted that his sister had a family of her own and he accepted their friends into their family. But, this? He could understand Brian, but he didn't understand how Mia and Jesse were choosing Miami over LA. "LA has always been home. Have you forgotten everything we've been through over there? All the memories we have?"
"Not all of that are good memories," Mia said quietly, remembering those last few moments in LA where everything had gone to hell.
Jesse nodded, remembering Tran. "Yeah, I almost died, man. Shit, that's not easy to forget. Miami was supposed to be our fresh start…"
"And our friends are here," Brian nodded to Roman, Tej, Suki, and Jimmy. He was pretty sure that if he went to LA, Roman would probably tag along—but what about Tej, Suki, and Jimmy? He didn't want to just leave them behind. "We can't just leave 'em."
"Who said about leavin' anybody?" Dom questioned.
Tej scoffed. "What, man? Y'thought we are just gonna leave our lives behind to go to LA with y'all?"
"I'm glad you decided to consider us, but we have our whole lives here," Suki said.
"Yeah—friends, business, everything," Jimmy agreed.
"See, you've underestimated me," Dom grinned, a smirk taking over his face. "I thought about some motivation for you to come with us, since I was sure my sister and Jesse wouldn't want to leave you behind." He hadn't expected Mia and Jesse to actually choose to stay here if they had to, but he had expected the hesitancy of leaving the people they had let into their circle in the last three years.
"Motivation?" Jimmy raised an eyebrow.
"What kinda motivation?" Tej asked, crossing his arms.
"Motivation that will surely have you interested," Dom smirked. "And hopefully it'll interest you, too," he said to Han, Gisele, Tego, and Rico.
"We're listening," Han said.
"Vamos, cuéntanos, hombre," Tego insisted. (Come on, tell us, man.)
"Suspense is killin' me here—tell us already!" Roman complained.
"Just three words; Race Wars—Reborn!"
"Of course all Dom would have to do if to mention Race Wars and everyone would be on board," Mia rolled her eyes as she bathed Jack. The idea of Race Wars defintely got the interest of the Miami crew, and after a long conversaton, they had agreed to come to LA.
"You make it sound like it was a bad thing," Brian chuckled, sitting on the edge of the bathtub as he watched with a smile as Mia washed their son's blond hair.
"It isn't a bad thing," Mia said. "But, having an obsession with something can't be that good either—especially when that something is dangerous."
"Mia, I've seen you race," Brian commented in amusement. "You're just about as crazy as any of us, and you don't care about safety when you're behind the wheel. Don't go around saying you're not excited to bring Race Wars back."
"A little, yeah," she shrugged with a small smile. "I like racing. I just don't like that it's illegal."
"Race Wars is legit," Brian said. "Private property. No-one can say shit."
"I guess you're right." She chuckled "Still think it's funny that just the mention of Race Wars had everyone interested."
"Of course it did," Brian chuckled. "It Race Wars! Cars, money, women…" The last word earned Brian a punch in the arm. "Ow!" He rubbed his arm. "What was that for?" he asked, and then smiled when hearing his son giggle at him.
"Women? Really, Brian?"
"Oh, come on! You can't help but look at someone hot. You tellin' me you haven't been eyeing hot guys around?"
"Nope."
"Bullshit."
"Okay, yeah, I have," she admitted. "Looking doesn't hurt!"
"It doesn't! Then why did you punch me?"
"Oh, you know; jealous girlfriend and stuff. Now, don't you judge me. You get jealous, too."
"When did I get jealous?"
"You scared the shit out of some guy some months ago!"
"That dude was gettin' way too touchy-feely," he muttered.
"You shouldn't have worried," she said. "You know I'd never do that to you."
"You weren't who I was worried about," he assured. "I was worried about that bastard that didn't seem to be able to get his hands off you. I had to do something, y'know?"
"Well, it worked, 'cause he hasn't shown his face around the garage," she commented and rolled her eyes when seeing the smirk in his face. "And you're proud of that? You made Tej lose a client!"
"I'm pretty sure Tej has a lot of clients to make up for him," Brian smirked as he leaned down and kissed her. "Especially now that he'll have double business with Dom's garage and Race Wars."
"True," Mia nodded as she lifted Jack off the tub. Brian handed her a towel to dry their son. "It's a good thing, too."
"Yeah. See? It is a good thing," he grinned cheekily.
"It's amazing that we can go home, now… back to LA, all of us together," Mia said.
Brian smiled and kissed her cheek. "I guess our fresh start of three years ago gave us good results after all."
"It definitely has," she smiled up to her boyfriend. "And now Jack will now LA. You hear, Jack?" she cooed to her little boy. "You'll see where I was raised. You'll see my old home. You'll love it there, I'm sure."
Remember I said last chapter that there was a conversation pending? Well, Dom and Mia finally had that conversation. Now things are finally settling down in this family.
Oh, and they're going back to LA. Yay! I really didn't know if I'd make them stay in Miami or in LA or some in Miami and others in LA. I really spent a lot of time trying to figure that out. Then a friend suggested that Dom could convince the Miami crew to come to LA with Race Wars and I was like, "Hey, that might work!" Because let's be honest, they cannot resist something like Race Wars. XD
So we're getting closer to the end. Sad, I know. I hope this didn't seem rushed or anything, but this story has to end. I know how I want it to end and I hope you like what I have planned. :)
Please review! I love reading your comments, guys. :3
Until next time!
